In a letter to William Kennedy, Hunter Thompson confided that he was "coming to view the free enterprise system as the single greatest evil in the history of human savagery."[Hunter S. Thompson The Proud Highway, 1998, pg. 456.]

the bene gesserit mention that other memories provides the revelation of what savagery people are capable of and what great examples of it you have in your ancestry in order to be among the survivors of human evolution.

not sure how deep into history other memories extends but lets say its confined to that portion where language is used; say 80,000 years. that makes nearly 90% of them from hunter gather societys which would predominantly have been matriarchal

yet the pre-born kwisatz haderach only mention agriculturalists men used in alliance to keep the hordes of other memories at bay

was this a comment on where frank saw the peak of human despotism?

I don't remember paul mentioning any alliancenor any reverend months needing help preserving their individuality from the female line

distrans wrote:In a letter to William Kennedy, Hunter Thompson confided that he was "coming to view the free enterprise system as the single greatest evil in the history of human savagery."[Hunter S. Thompson The Proud Highway, 1998, pg. 456.]

the bene gesserit mention that other memories provides the revelation of what savagery people are capable of and what great examples of it you have in your ancestry in order to be among the survivors of human evolution.

not sure how deep into history other memories extends but lets say its confined to that portion where language is used; say 80,000 years. that makes nearly 90% of them from hunter gather societys which would predominantly have been matriarchal

yet the pre-born kwisatz haderach only mention agriculturalists men used in alliance to keep the hordes of other memories at bay

was this a comment on where frank saw the peak of human despotism?

I don't remember paul mentioning any alliancenor any reverend months needing help preserving their individuality from the female line

I believe Leto II's OM went back to the original cell. I'm not sure how far back RM's go.

Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers have what they call their Mohalata, a union of their benign ancestors that protect them from malignant ancestors.

Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus.~Pink Snowman

Freakzilla wrote:Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers have what they call their Mohalata, a union of their benign ancestors that protect them from malignant ancestors.

Where is the term Mohalata from? I don't remember it from my last read-through.

To be fair to what distrans wrote above, I do think there are indications in Messiah that Frank viewed bureaucracy as being the ultimate tyranny, and so there's an argument to be made that the OM referred to in CoD and GeoD saw male industrialists as being the peak of human despotism. There may have been malignant female ancestors, but for them to have been despots to a notable level they would have to have also had a system in place that was despotic. Hunter-gatherer societies most likely didn't have this kind of social machinery and so they were incapable of being despotic as a culture to the same extent that later human civilization could achieve.

Freakzilla wrote:Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers have what they call their Mohalata, a union of their benign ancestors that protect them from malignant ancestors.

Where is the term Mohalata from? I don't remember it from my last read-through.

It's first used in Children of Dune, Ghanima calls on it to protect her from Other Memory. It's used a couple of other times in that book as a Fremen term, not related to Other Memory. It's again used in Chapterhouse: Dune by Rebecca, Bellonda, and Murbella in reference to OM.

Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus.~Pink Snowman